Is our plugin dynamic? Why an IDE restart is always required once the plugin is reloaded?

[PawelLipski]

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/docs/intellij/dynamic-plugins.html

[mkondratek]

IIRC we asked us this question years ago 😅

For now every time I update the plugin I must restart the IDE (the plugin tab disappears).
On the other hand (however I am not 100% sure) I think that one is able to install and use the plugin without restarting.

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I think it would be nice to make it dynamic!

[PawelLipski]

Huh plugin verifier (executed in every CI run) says:

Plugin can probably be enabled or disabled without IDE restart

There's actually no way for plugin verifier to say that plugin can surely be reloaded without restart:

... which in turn is probably due to things like these:

that can't easily be checked statically without actually running the IDE with plugin 🤔